Research and Technical Content

Since March 2000 Australian Turfgrass Management Journal has been the Australian turfgrass industry's premier source of turfgrass research and technical content. In partnership with Horticulture Australia Limited ATM devotes a certain percentage of each edition to publishing turfgrass research and technical information to assist in improving management techniques of our practitioners.  ATM takes its role in disseminating turf research and technical information very seriously and as the 2009 AGCSA Publications Survey demonstrated more than 80 per cent of respondents used ATM as their primary source for turf research and techncial information.

What follows is a list of research and technical content published in ATM as part of the current HAL Project TU08002 which commenced in January 2009.

AGCSATech

• AGCSATech Update – From brown to green/biodiversity study (ATM Vol 13.6)
• AGCSATech Update - Bents and benchmarking (ATM Vol 13.5)
• AGCSATech Update – Winter sportsfield management (ATM Vol 13.4)
• AGCSATech Update - New bents put to the test during first year (ATM Vol 13.1)
• AGCSATech Update – Australian plague locusts (ATM Vol 12.5)
• AGCSATech Update – Mother Nature puts bents to the test (ATM Vol 12.3)
• AGCSATech Update – The biodiversity value of Australian golf courses (ATM Vol 12.1)
• AGCSATech Update – Establishment results emerge from bentgrass trials (ATM Vol 11.6)
• AGCSATech Update – Sediment, nutrient and pesticide movement on golf courses (ATM Vol 11.5)
• ANTEP ryegrass and tall fescue trials (ATM Vol 11.4)
• AGCSATech Update – Bentgrass variety trials (ATM Vol 11.3)
• AGCSATech Update – Supers speak out on Poa control (ATM Vol 11.2) 
• AGCSATech Update – Local ecotypes perform in bentgrass salinity trials (ATM Vol 11.1) 

All final reports from past AGCSATech projects can be viewed here.

ATM Tech Talks

• Pythium problems (ATM Vol 13.6)
• Making sense of dollar spot (ATM Vol 13.5)
• Putting soils to the test (ATM Vol 13.4)
• Tackling Take-all (ATM Vol 13.3)
• The challenges of couch control (ATM Vol 13.1)
• Trial and error - establishing on course trials (ATM Vol 12.6)
• Shade management (ATM Vol 12.5)
• Promoting the right microbial environment (ATM Vol 12.4)
• The biology of turfgrass soils (ATM Vol 12.3)
• Tale of the tissue (ATM Vol 12.2)
• Tools of the turf trade (ATM Vol 12.1)
• Maximising root health (ATM Vol 11.6)
• The root of healthy turf (ATM Vol 11.5)
• Green speed (ATM Vol 11.4)
• Sand slit drainage (ATM Vol 11.3)
• Understanding fungicide usage (ATM Vol 11.2)
• Managing micronutrients (ATM Vol 11.1)

Queensland Department of Employment Economic Development and Innovation (formerly QDPIF)

• Improving the selection and management of turfgrass in the tropics (ATM Vol 13.3)
• DEEDI wear tolerance trials extended (ATM Vol 13.2)
• Keeping alive the living library (ATM Vol 13.1)
• Turf wearability and recovery of community sportsgrounds (ATM Vol 12.4)
• Management guidelines for new warm-seasons greens grasses (ATM Vol 12.3)
• Grass roots wear and tear (ATM Vol 12.2)
• Redlands warm-season greens trials wraps up (ATM Vol 11.6)
• Screening hybrid couch cultivars for salinity tolerance/Warm-season grass trials field day (ATM Vol 11.4)
• The Rights stuff - Plant Breeders Rights (ATM Vol 11.3)

University of Western Australia

• Managing soil water repellency in turfgrass on sands (ATM Vol 13.3)
• Response of soft-leaf buffalograss to renovations (ATM Vol 13.1)
• UWA embarks on new turf trials (ATM Vol 12.2)
• Managing water repellency in turfgrass grown in sand soils (ATM Vol 11.6)
• Haloyphytic turfgrass and their potential use on salt-affected areas (ATM Vol 11.1)

United States Golf Association Turf and Environmental Research Online (USGATERO)

• Organic matter dilution programmes for sand-based greens (ATM Vol 13.5)
• Optimisation of foliar nitrogen nutrition (ATM Vol 13.2)
• Mite-y adversary - couchgrass mites (ATM Vol 12.6)
• Getting to the core of carbs - the effects of coring on carbohydrate, photosynthesis and respiration rates in creeping bentgrass (ATM Vol 12.5)
• Summer bentgrass decline and use of biostimulants and PGRs (ATM Vol 12.3)
• Carbohydrate metabolism in creeping bentgrass as influenced by irrigation (ATM Vol 11.3)
• Long-term monitoring of nutrient loss in golf course runoff (ATM Vol 11.2)

Other

• Golf course biodiversity study (ATM Vol 13.5)
• Native patch diseases put to the test (ATM Vol 13.5)
• Artificial turf literature review (ATM Vol 13.4)
• Rub of the green: Research snapshot of the Australian golf industry (ATM Vol 11.5)
• The environmental, social, economic and health benefits of turfgrass (ATM Vol 11.1)